Bhava Pratyaya Videha Yogis represent inherited meditative capacity carried across lifetimes, granting effortless access to profound samadhi. Patanjali warns that such absorption—whether bliss-based or cosmic—remains within nature unless completed by viveka-khyāti. True liberation arises not from experience alone, but from discriminative wisdom that dissolves even subtle bondage.
Even the most sublime yogic states—Videha and Prakriti-laya—are revealed to be subtle forms of bondage in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. This blog explores how these states, while appearing like liberation, still bind the yogi through attachment. It introduces three authentic post-death paths—Sadyo-mukti, Krama-mukti, and Avatāra—and explains the deeper role of Viveka-khyāti and Bhava-pratyaya.